Re: [R] WinXP exhibits sluggish graphics window movement mouse tracking (repainting?) over windows graphics devices

Thanks for your message! Yes, the fault was with my configuration --- I changed the video card refresh rate setting from 75 Hz to 60 Hz and the behavior is no longer sluggish. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see this on a much older and slower

Re: [R] WinXP exhibits sluggish graphics window movement mouse tracking (repainting?) over windows graphics devices

I don't see this on a much older and slower machine, so suspect a problem with your Windows. It looks like something is set up to ask R to repaint after the mouse pointer, whereas Windows ought to be doing that. Even then, R uses double buffering, so the repaint should be fast (provided

[R] WinXP exhibits sluggish graphics window movement mouse tracking (repainting?) over windows graphics devices

I just noticed when using 2.6.1, 2.6.2 (2008-02-08), 2.6.2pat (2008-02-21 r44582), and 2.6.2pat (2008-03-24 r44975) on my poor old Celeron D330 (2.6 GHz; 3.5 years old) running Windows XP, that the mouse cursor appears to be redrawn more sluggishly when the pointer is over R windows graphics